Topic: Nokia squeezes 41mp camera into latest smartphone

[Simon]

Nokia will be including a 41-megapixel - yes, forty one - camera in its latest smartphone, the Nokia 808 PureView.

The camera also sports Carl Zeiss optics with a maximum aperture of f/2.4 and is accompanied by a single Xenon flash. The sensor technology, which Nokia said was "inspired by satellite imaging technology", is the highest seen on any smartphone today, and higher than most consumer DSLRs.

Images produced by the new camera are 38-megapixels in size, and in demos showed less noise than we'd expected and a lot of detail and punch.

The phone can also produce lower resolution images (5 megapixels) with more dynamic range using a technique Nokia calls 'pixel oversampling' – condensing the information of seven pixels into one.

Oddly, though, Nokia has not chosen to squeeze its mind-boggling new camera technology into its latest Windows Phone handset, but into a smartphone sporting the new flavour of Symbian – Nokia Belle.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/373138/nokia-squeezes-41mp-camera-into-latest-smartphone

[Rik]

Are they making phones or cameras. That is plain daft in my book.

[daveeb]

Are they making phones or cameras. That is plain daft in my book.

agreed, also 41 MP is fairly meaningless if the optics aren't up to much 

[Rik]

Too right, Dave. It seems like an expensive marketing ploy.

[Simon]

It seems ludicrous to me.  I was more interested in the comment that the phone would be running a new incarnation of Symbian, rather than Windows Mobile. 

[Rik]

Is it called Symbianotic?

[Simon]

That's one of your pills, isn't it? 

[Rik]

Not yet, but it's an option.

[daveeb]

It seems ludicrous to me.  I was more interested in the comment that the phone would be running a new incarnation of Symbian, rather than Windows Mobile. 

Yes I thought symbians days were numbered, and based on the way my nokia "smart" phone runs with it then good riddance